Chapter 845: The Global Arms Race
The ordnance trade caused by political factors, in addition to the six northern countries, also includes the Kingdom of Tankor, the Kingdom of Orr, and the Kingdom of Kassi.
The Kingdom of Tanor has just ended the war, and the new Kingdom of Tanor is supported by the Great Heng Empire, and the army of this new kingdom is built by the people of Great Heng.
At the same time, they also signed a mutual defense treaty with the Great Heng Empire, and in this case, their armaments were naturally on par with the Great Heng.
As for the Kasi Kingdom, this country on the central continent, although it has no sense of existence, it is in the southwest of the Daheng people, and it was infiltrated by the Orissa Empire very much in the early years, but after the unification of Daheng, the Kasi Kingdom began to be a wall-to-wall grass, sometimes falling to the Daheng Empire, sometimes to the Orissa Empire, all kinds of benefits.
However, after the Danna War, the Olisa Empire retreated completely, and this Cassie Kingdom was also forced to completely fall to the Daheng Empire, and if it did not fully fall to the Daheng Empire, it is estimated that the Cassie Civil War would break out......
So now the armament of the Cassie Kingdom is also moving closer to the Daheng Empire, and it is negotiating the signing of a mutual defense treaty.
The current Daheng Empire has little interest in annexing these broken places, but it also does not want these countries to be controlled by other great powers, after all, these places are the backyard of the Daheng Empire, so it needs to strengthen control through various means.
Finally, there is the Orr Kingdom, they are looking for the Great Heng Empire to purchase weapons and equipment, which is purely because other countries do not sell them to them......
The contradiction between the Orr Kingdom and the Krull Kingdom is very big, and in the past few decades, the Krull Kingdom of both sides has invaded the Orr Kingdom four times for the sake of gold and oil.
With the Kingdom of Krull on the sidelines, other countries basically don't have the courage to sell the advanced top-of-the-line weapons to the Orr Kingdom, such as battleships.
But let's do it, Daheng people dare!
Therefore, some top-level weapons, such as battleships and the like, they can only be purchased from the Daheng Empire.
However, in addition to these special countries, other countries are very simple arms trade, such as the Mongol Khanate, a country located in the eastern part of the Western Continent, which prides itself on being the first power in the second echelon, they find the Great Heng Empire to purchase all kinds of warships, and the army weapons are purely cheap and easy to use, plus there are no political conditions.
And here, it is very important to be cheap and easy to use, after all, many countries, even the Mongol Khanate, have very limited funds for the development of national defense, and they also need to maintain as large an army as possible.
So the price-performance ratio of the weapon is something they value very much.
At this time, the huge cost advantage of Nanzhou Machinery Bureau is reflected!
The Nanzhou Machinery Bureau relies on the relatively low labor cost of the Daheng Empire, well, it is actually more expensive than other backward countries, but at least it is lower than the Krull Kingdom, the Bvarian Empire, and the Kell Empire, the three traditional industrial powers.
At the same time, their production is large enough!
Supported by the huge orders of the army and navy of the Daheng Empire, coupled with the huge foreign trade orders, this makes the several large arsenals of the Daheng Empire represented by the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau can make the output of products larger, and the output has increased, which is amortized with lower R&D and production costs, so that it can achieve a lower price.
And the low price and good quality can in turn attract more orders, so as to form a virtuous circle!
In the end, the Great Heng Empire occupied a place in the international arms trade.
In the 16 years of Qiansheng's international arms trade, the Daheng Empire occupied about 35 percent of the market share, second only to the 38 percent of the Krull Kingdom.
Combined, these two powers account for 73 percent of the world's market, leaving only a small portion of the market to be divided between the Kokel Empire, the Walya Empire, and a few other countries.
However, ten years ago, this proportion should have been more than 50% of the Krull Kingdom, but the Kyle Empire and the Valya Empire also each had a share of more than 10 percent of their arms exports.
It can also be seen from this share of the international arms export market how terrifying the momentum of the Daheng Empire is and how the huge market of the three traditional industrial countries has been embezzled.
This is also the reason why in recent years, the Daheng Empire has been increasingly targeted internationally.
In particular, the world boss of the Krull Kingdom is full of vigilance against the Great Heng Empire, and has already made corresponding arrangements for the rise of the Great Heng Empire several years ago.
The most intuitive is the naval race between the two sides.
The two sides continued to build and launch warships one after another, which directly stimulated the huge development of the industrial field in the process.
Twenty years ago, who would have thought that it would be possible to build a warship with a displacement of more than 20,000 tons, equipped with 300 mm and 45 times the caliber, and with rapid-fire of 1.5 rounds per minute, equipped with case-hardened armor, and even capable of running 20 knots!
At that time, everyone was still generally stuck in wrought iron and hardwood composite armor, and the Krull Kingdom had just invented steel-faced ironclad, and the first battleship with steel-clad ironclad was the King, and it would take three or four years to start construction.
And then in such a short period of ten or twenty years, the armor of the battleship went from wrought iron hardwood to steel-faced iron armor, and then to case-hardened armor.
Naval guns have developed from front-loading rifled guns to rear-loading rifled guns, and then to rapid-fire guns.
The power system is also gradually climbing, the steam engine is gradually exerted to the three-expansion four-cylinder steam engine, and the boiler is gradually developed to the current small water tube boiler, and there is oil injection to support combustion, that is, the pure oil-fired boiler is actually there, but in addition to the Daheng Empire, few countries dare to use it on a large scale, for no other reason, they can not guarantee the supply of oil!
Even on the side of the Daheng Empire, there is a top-secret project steam turbine.
In fact, all these technological advances come from the fierce international competition pressure of each other.
The unification and rise of the Great Heng Empire directly disrupted the international order of the Blue Star, brought many uncertainties and the great possibility of war breaking out, which in turn generated huge national defense pressures on various countries.
For example, the Great Heng Empire wants to rebuild its navy, and it wants to build a bunch of battleships to protect its own interests, but after the Olisa Empire in the south saw it, it was frightened and directly passed several naval expansion plans in a row, and the Krull Kingdom had to expand accordingly in order to cope with the rise of the Great Heng Empire's navy, and their naval arsenal would cause panic among other countries.
After all, the Krull Kingdom said that it was to guard against the Daheng Empire, but the Kekel Empire and the Valia Empire next door didn't dare to believe it, no matter what you want to do, but you have expanded the navy, and I have to expand the navy to deal with it.
The same is happening in many countries!
Thus, the naval race that has affected the world in the last decade has begun!